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Garfield Street Foundation at a glance

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Garfield Street Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2021
33
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$320kCommunity Improvement$244kArts & Culture$86kEducation$32kHealth$23kEnvironment$20kYouth Development$17kAnimals$11kOther$0
02FY2021 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k32 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NM$11,000
FRIENDS OF SANTA FE PUBLIC LIBRARY$6,500
LEONARD HELMAN BRIDGE CLUB$5,000
NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$5,000
NATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
VITAL SPACES$3,000
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$2,527
SANTA FE OPERA$2,500
SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$2,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,343
PLAYSCHOOL OF THE ARTS$2,303
COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN$2,000
THE NATURE CONSERVATORY$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $2k → 14%THINK NEW MEXICO: $1k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%MANY MOTHERS: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 21 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$488k
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+78%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SANTA FE OPERA
    3× · 2017–2021 · $41k · revenue +84%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +43%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • RL
    ROSEMONT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $234k
  • SS
    SFPS STUDENT NUTRITION SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • Y
    YOUTHWORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +78%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Santa Fe Indian School

Provide educational and residential opportunities for native american children in grades 7-12.

Education
2
Community Power New Mexico
Community Improvement
3
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
4
El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe Inc

Mission is to promote, present and preserve hispanic arts & culture of nm. showcasing, encourging & supporting participation of hispanics in local arts economy; and presenting creative & cultural richness of our heritage, including arts &…

Arts & Culture
5
Santa Fe Forest Coalition

Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico

Environment
6
Santa Fe Jazz Foundation Inc
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7
National Institute of Flamenco

The mission of nif is to preserve and promote flamenco's artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the american family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on…

Arts & Culture
8
Santa Fe Pro Musica Inc

Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.

Arts & Culture
9
Santa Fe International Literary Festival

Santa fe international literary festival (sfilf, or the festival) was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in new mexico in 2023. the mission of sfilf is to connect writers, readers, and thinkers from around the world and close to home…

Arts & Culture
10
Global Santa Fe

To promote the understanding of international issues and cultural affairs.

International
11
The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc

Through a variety of media created by emerging and established artists, the center for contemporary arts of santa fe, inc. (center) presents the arts of our time as vital elements in the cultural dialogue in santa fe and throughout new…

Arts & Culture
12
Bold Futures Nm

Bold futures nm leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in new mexico. bold futures nm centers the lived experiences and expertise of those most impacted by an issue,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Ass. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS: $274,239 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSROSEMONT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $234,015 · OtherROSEMONT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE+36 more: $134,919 · Other+36 moreTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $41,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA F…NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $21,800 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DA…SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CH…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $16,650 · HealthNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $5,000 · HealthSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $9,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $8,500 · EnvironmentSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · AnimalsDESERT PAWS: $2,000 · AnimalsNEW MEXICO APPLESEED: $9,500 · Community ImprovementLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $7,000 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$643,173Arts & Culture$79,300Health$21,650Environment$17,500Animals$11,000Community Improvement$9,500Philanthropy$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $41,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $21,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $16,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MOUNTAIN REGION: $11,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO APPLESEED: $9,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $8,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SANTA FE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER OPPORTUNITIES FUND: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC: $5,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL TAY-SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHWORKS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST SERVE-NM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCREATIVE SANTA FE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Santa Fe: $1,936 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEsperanza Shelter Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMany Mothers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Thornburg FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Abeles FoundationAlbuquerque Community…Battelle Memorial Ins…Bolene Charitable Tru…Anchorum St VincentRotary Club of Santa …Gale Family FoundationLineberry FoundationFeinberg Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM43.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Battelle Memorial Institute · Bolene Charitable Trust · Anchorum St Vincent · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · Gale Family Foundation · Lineberry Foundation · Feinberg Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Garfield Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garfield Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Garfield Street Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Garfield Street Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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